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Chicago examiner vol xii no 263 a m saturday Chicago october 24 1914 saturday kegutefed ia c 8 patent office price one cent ta a,l ifwo e 1 ? s e mrs carman unshaken by state in death story cross-examined for more than an hour but essential facts of her testimony remain un refuted by the prosecution jury will retire this afternoon and verdict by nightfall is expected woman loses tem per once under questioning aiineola l 1 oct 23.â€”to morrow afternoon the jury which is to decide whether mrs florence conkiin carman murdered mrs louise duryea bailey on the night of june 30 will retire to deliberate upon the evidence a verdict before nightfall is predicted there is only one more witness for the defense to be called and his testimony will be comparatively un important mrs carman went back to her cell to-night smiling she as sured her mother her husband and her little daughter that she would spend sunday with them a free woman they went home cheered by her confidence the accused woman's ten-year-old daughter elizabeth her aged parents ilr and mrs piatt conkiin her sis ter mrs ida powell her niece mrs helen powell corby and her husband the cherubic doctor edwin carman testified in her behalf to-day the stories were all refutations of the ac cusations of celia coleman the negro maid jmhs iarma.v od vit_vess previously district attorney smith put mrs carman through eighty min utes of cross-examination while he shfiok e-r until she bit her lips in vexation and tr:iptÂ»<'d her into several significant contradictions she was a letter witness for herself than were any of her relatives mr smith's cross-examination was subtle and adroit he forced mrs carman into admitting she was sus picious of any woman who came to her husbands office tliat she sus pected the doctor of impropriety with his women patients that she never felt sorry enough for the duryea balley family to send them a letter of sympathy and that she valued the money her husband made more than his undivided love but he did not shake her main story nor did he find out whether anybody had seen lier in the waiting loom after the murder this point was the most debated topic during the noon recess mrs carman on direct examination testified that she went downstairs after hearing the shot tliat she stopped in the waiting room and that she returned to her room where ida powell told her eventually what the trouble was but district attorney smith did not ask any of lier relatives if they saw her between ihe time the shot was fired and the tearful meeting of the women of the family in mrs carman's room some time after the tragedy john j graham attorney for the defense declared the omission of this bit of evidence did not embarrass mrs carman in the slightest degree mrs powell appeared in court in the same white dress she wore the night of the murder and george golder called by the defense admitted it was she he saw on the porch as he called at the carman house i>r carmajv confused dr carman was the poorest wit ness the defense produced his v.ubby face was apoplectic as smith cross-examined him about the exact time of the tragedy about the delay in calling up the police about the â– mysterious man who came into his ort'ice and slapped him on the back about his throwing himself behind the operating chair when the revolver en tered the window and leaving mrs bailey unprotected and about his re fusal to permit the detectives to search his books in efforts to locate the two women who fled from the of fice dr carman's story seemed incom i â– ilete the cross-examination left him confused and unconvincing little elizabeth carman told her story in a mechanical parrot-like way she was very pretty and ap pealing district attorney smith when elizabeth was turned over to him for cro^s-examiiiation merely smiled at the child elizabeth he asked very gently you are very fond of your mother aren't you - yes sir replied she that's all sighed mr smith kerdinand 1 morton the negro lawyer who took a statement from celia coleman mrs carman's maid which the witness reversed in her tes timony at the trial almost came to blows with district attorney smith when morton insulted the prosecutor after he had been subje.ted to severe cross-examination admits jests piqi el her iu her cross-examination mrs car man declared she could not recall whÂ«n it was that the first became jealous of the doctor she simply heard rumors of the doctor's philan dering she had heard men say wish we had your opportun'ties doc doc you're sure some devil with the women wish we could stay out all night doc naturally she said she was a bit 8 women's minimum pay in minnesota ! commission orders sliding scale . applying to minors and learners also st pal'l minn oct 3 â€” wage orders affecting all women workers and minors in minnesota were pro mulgated by the state minimum wage commission to-day the orders will go into effect november 23 thirty days after their establishment they are based on the weekly living wage necessary for workers in the various occupations six orders in all were made as follows cities of the first class mercan tile 9 manufacturing 55.75 cities of second third and fourth classes js.oo 58.25 outside the cities 8 in both classes the mercantile classification in cludes women workers and minors employed in mercantile lines office help waitresses and hair dressers the manufacturing and mechanical lines include telephone and telegraph help laundry workers dry cleaning employes lunch rocm restaurant and hotel help the different orders relating to the part of the state in which the work ers are employed are based on the cost of living in the various classes of cities and in the country districts the minimum wages apply to learn ers apprentices women and minors that the orders will be tested in the courts is almost certain the same procedure may be followed as was used in the attack on the oregon wage law with which an employer refused to comply a decision from the united states supreme court on tiie appeal from the oregon law may have a bearing on the future of min nesota's new orders e b mclean injured in auto-train race washington oct 23 â€” while rac ing with trie mile a-minute baltimore & ohio special in his 9,000 italian motor car this evening edward b mc lean father or the 3100,000,000 baby received a broken arm w-hen the gasoline tank of the machine ex ploded the car was destroyed by flames mclean was returning to washing ton from the laurel race track he was accompanied by john gheen a garage keeper of this city there is a strip of road alonrÂ»*ide the railroad track which the fre quenters of laurel use as a speed way mclean had scarcely struck this stretch on his return to wash ington when the baltimore & ohio flyer thundered along he set his machine to full speed and was keep ing alongside the train when the ex plosion came and he and his compan ion were hurled to the ground rabbi slain holding cross before soldier london oct 23 news has reached the jewish world of the man ner in which the chief rabbi of lyons was killed on the battlefield he was in the midst of the fighting tending wounded jewish soldiers when he was called to the side of a dying ro man catholic trooper this poor el low begged the rabbi to hold before his eyes the symbol of his faith and give him his blessing while he was holding a crucifix before the soldier and whisperingÂ».words of comfort the rabbi-fell dead a victim of a bullet duke of roxburghe reported wounded london oct 23 â€” the duke of roxburghe a captain in the scots guards is unofficially reported wounded but not dangerously during the action in france the duke is the husband of the former miss may goelet and is well known in america waldorf astor s son wounded in battle london oct 23 â€” captain john astor of the first life guards son of waldorf astor is reported to have arrived in london to-day from the front suffering from a wound re ceived in battle in france 50,000 is price set for love by ghicago girl miss nellie viola richards sues h w fry of st paul for failure to wed her met in cafe in twih city action follows betrothal to an other fifty letters are evi " dence lawyers assert st paul minn oct 23 â€” henry welz fry 1035 summit avenue has been served with notice of a suit for f50,000 brought by miss nellie viola richards 4151 lake park avenue Chicago charging breach of promise to marry miss richards action fol lows closely upon the announcement of mr fry's engagement to miss ber nice frances page daughter of mr and mrs albert a page of minneap olis according to the bill which miss richards attorneys are preparing tr file the Chicago girl who is just twenty-three and pretty announced her engagement prepared her trous seau and was the guest at several pre-nuptial parties the announcement she says fol lowed her introduction to fry when on a visit to st paui in 1913 and sev eral visits which fry made to her miss richards attorneys in st paul murphy bradford & cummings say she has no less than fifty letters fr>>m fry in twenty-fife of which he re fers lo their forthcoming marriage and tells of his devotion introduced at cafe jliss richards was a guest of mrs arnold p flankers 386 maria ave nue on her visits in st paul the two were girlhood friends in Chicago to-day dr plankers said that miss richards came to st paul august 13 1913 on her way to winnipeg ex pecting to visit mrs plankers the i latter was out of the city and dr plankers entertained miss richards taking her to luncheon and dinner at the restaurant he said he in troduced mr fry to miss richards miss richards left that evening for winnipeg but returned to st paul september 22 she says she remained in st paul three weeks as mrs flanker's guest mr fry being very attentive at christmas time miss richards says mr fry went to Chicago for two days and in june he made a similar stay june 8 according to her as sertions he talked to her parents in august according to miss rich ards attorneys mr fry went to chi cago and at that time a party was given for miss richards at the home of a friend at which the announce ment of her engagement to mr fry was made fry silent about suit then came the announcement ot fry's engagement to miss page miss richards her attorneys say asked fry about this and he admitted it fry refused to talk about the suit to night he has twenty days in which to answer miss richards complaint miss page said she was engaged to marry mr fry and that the wedding was se for november 11 mr fry would not admit t_*at lie and miss page were engaged 1 want the name of the woman i am to marry kept out of this he said miss richards when called on the telephone last night at lier home 4151 lake park avenue said the suit had been flled against mr fry but de clined to discuss the details the suit will speak for itself when heard she said stockings will be neutral i e white milwaukee wis oct 23 stockings are to be white this is a war note â€” not a fashion note the j three largest stocking factories in j the world announce that because of | the soaring prices of dyestuffs most of which are imported from germany the bulk of their output for the com ing season will bear the colors of the flag of truce there will be pink and purple and other colored hose for those who want them and will pay the price but as more stockings than ever before will be of cotton and i white sox never run â€” stockings are to be white mugler dies as he pleads to 300 voters republican leader's friends see death instead qf reconcilia tion with old rival collapses on rostrum pulmotor fails to save politician when he is stricken with â€¢ apoplexy three hundred of the friends and followers of george a mugler gath ered at the fifteenth ward repub lican club last night to see him shake the hand of james j mccomb lately his political opponent but there was no such hand shaking and mr mug ler's friends instead saw him die he was delivering an address for fifteen minutes he had been speaking with the greatest earnestness urg ing his auditors to put aside all per sonal differences â€” as he had done in his relations with mccomb he leaned forward to emphasize a point you and i remember he cried the days of 1893 when when â€” " the sentence was not finished mr mugler gasped struggled to recover himself then collapsed on the plat form as two men rushed forward to catch him when they leaned over him on thc floor he was unconscious pujl.motor is used dr urheim hurried forward and made an examination apoplexy he said send for a pulmotor the pulmotor was brought quickly but its use was vain the body was taken to the mugler home 1351 north california avenue mr mugler was forty-six years old he was a republican leader in his ward and he had held several public offices the latest being that of sec retary of the west side park board james j mccomb defeated mr mug ler for re-election as republican ward committeeman and it was said there had been some bitterness yesterday was the first time since primary day that mr mugler had appeared at the headquarters his rival ili at home it was to have been a reconciliation day between mr mugler and mr mc comb to this end senator niels juui had been working unceasingly the appearance of mr mugler was hailed as evidence that harmony was re stored it had been announced that mr mccomb would be present also but illness prevented mr mugler was born in Chicago and educated here he had filled the offices of chief clerk in the county clerk's office and alderman of the old fourteenth ward in addition to the secretaryship which he held at his death for years he had been repub lican ward committeeman he is survived by his wife and one brother henry mugler an inquest will be held this morning at the mug ler home general winslow financier dead st louis mo oct 23 â€” general edward f winslow widely known as a financier and railroad builder and formerly a resident of st louis who served for several years as presi dent of the frisco died at his sum mer home canandaigua n y to night general winslow who re turned early in the summer from paris where he and his wife had been spending some time served as presi dent of the frisco from 1882 to 1892 and later built the new york west shore & buffalo railroad and several other railroads he was seventy seven years old kettle-strong home oak park relic burns fire destroyed one of oak park's relics last night when the three-story frame house at 385 north boulevard formerly the home of the kettle strong family the first settlers of the suburb was burned to the ground it was erected forty-seven years ago and recently was condemned the building was used as a clubhouse by the boys of oak park high school from 1900 to 1910 since that time it has been vacant jewelry disappears while owner bathes the south clark street police are searching for a burglar who entered the room of e f pshurer 1311 south michigan avenue last night and escaped with jewelry valued at 575 pshurer had gone to the bathroom and left the door and window to his room open when he returned from his bath he discovered that the jew elry had been stolen wilson goes to help a mitchell palmer washington oct 23 â€” president wilson started for pittsburgh at mid night he will make a speech for representative a mitchell palmer who is running for the united states senate against boise penrose the presidenl will return to w^i^hngton " '" __________ zeppelins to attack ships with torpedo troops transported by aeroplane help french win battle on the meuse special cable to the examiner milan oct 23 for the past few days many zeppelins have been practicing at a great height over lake constance firing torpedoes at targets on rafts in the lake below the results of this practice are such that the germans are said to have decided to supply the airships under construction with torpedo ap paratus these airships will be ready within a few months to co operate in the north sea paris oct 23 â€” transportation of troops by aeroplanes has just enabled the french to win an engagement in the east two heavy biplanes each carrying a couple of men flew over the german lines twelve times at night and deposited forty-eight sol diers on a plateau in the meuse heights one kilometer behind trenches of the enemy which were so strongly protected by barbed wire that they could not be carried by frontal attack at dawn the air-borne detachment blazed away at the enemy from the rear caught between two fires the germans evacuated the trenches and retreated poisoned cigarets the latest atrocity special cable lo the examiner , london oct 23 â€” here is a thriller from the evening news one of lord northcliffe's papers dr a m low technical adviser to the government in connection with wireless telegraphy recently has been experimenting with a rifle of which the germans are trying to ob tain control some weeks ago a ger man financier visited dr low with out result a few days ago a man represent ing himself to be the secretary of this german visited the doctor during the interview he offered dr low a cigaret dr low did not smoke it later it w r as analyzed and found to be charged with a strong dose of strychnine chloride early in september a shot was fired at dr low through the window of his laboratory aeroplanes drive 2 taubes from paris special cable to the examiner paris oct 23 â€” the following of ficial statement was issued to-day two taube aeroplanes tempted by the flrst clear day in a week were sighted over compiegne to-day headed for paris a french defensive fleet of aeroplanes ascended to give battle but the taubes reversed their direction and descended well behind the imperial trenches nude water poloists rout german patrol paris oct 23 â€” according to the cri-de paris a detachment of british cavalry was playing water polo in the oise near noyen tjvis w _ eek when the approach of an uhlan patrol was signaled there was not time enough to dress so quitting the water the britishers leaped into their saddles as they were and dripping wet chased the germans ave miles across country \. kaiser's triumphal paris music seized special cable to the examiner paris oct 23 the cri de paris says hans hammerburg whom it de scribes as the chief bandmaster of the german army has been captured having in his possession a number of triumphal marches marked to be played on the kaiser's entry into paris hospital ship back with 150 refugees new york pet 23 â€” the ameri can hospital ship red cross which sailed from new york last month with american surgeons and nurses for service in the european war ar rived off sandy hook to-night she left rotterdam on oetoljer 1,2 and has on board 150 passengers most of whom are refugees 498 lost on hawke says admiralty list special cable to the examiner london oct 23 the press bu reau of the admiralty to-day issued a casualty list giving two men dead and 496 missing as the result of the sinking of the hawke it is feared the missing must be regarded as dead , . i _____â– germans battering allies back lose 200,000 in warsaw battle french charge retake altkirch invaders take trenches at la bassee capture two forts at belfort renew their assaults on verdun allied wedge perils von kluck french destroy 3 teuton batteries belgians wipe out german force special cable io the examiner petrograd oct 23 the battle of the vistula with 4,520,000 men engaged is the fiercest of the war grand duke nicholas reports that the germans are in rapid retirement and the general staff claims 200,000 germans lost in killed wounded and captured the ger man aim to capture warsaw is declared to have been defeated by the rout on the vistula przemysl is report ed taken paris oct 23 the french to-day captured alt kirch upper alsace at the point of the bayonet this is the fifth time altkirch has changed hands since the war began berlin via the hague oct 23 the allies vigorous attack on the german lines before lille has failed the trench and british are being driven steadily to the westward the principal gains of the germans to-day were made in the vicinity of laÃŸassee here from their vantage ground of a dry canal over which the allies shells sweep harmlessly while the kaiser's soldiers rest snugly underneath the germans made a sortie and fell on the allies lines which retired in some confusion the germans gain at laÃŸassee was greater than at any other por tion of the line but the day saw large accessions to the territory occu pied by the teuton armies all along the battle front the german attack on belfort by which'route it is hoped to hurl the kaiser's armies again toward paris is proceeding two french forts to the south of the main fortress have capitulated to the germans the garrisons withdrawing to the greater stronghold official statements french issued last night in bordeaux â– on our left wing the action has continued with extreme violence espe cially around arras taÃŸassee and armentieres the allies forces have lost ground at some points around laÃŸassee but have gained ground to the east of armen tieres the situation has not changed in a general way along this part of the front north of the aisne our artillery has destroyed three german bat teries the afternoon statement said we hava made progress espe cially in the region of rosieresand in santerre in the region of verdun and in that of pont-a-mous son we have had some partial suc cess german issued lust night in berlin - on the yser â– yesterday i we sue i to the south i our i troops a d i to the west i lille our at i tacks sue | cessful we took possession of several villages on the rest of the western front it is generally quiet austrian received by dr dumba austro hungarian ambassador by wireless from vienna last night in battle i on i the i river suc i ceeded i ing i vances lon the southern i bank on the | p height no 66 hill southeast of stary sambor we took two defensive positions northwest of stary sambor our front has been moved nearer to the highway leading to starasol in the most recent fighting 3,400 russians among them twenty-five officers with fifteen machine guns were captured our vanguard has entered czer nowicz the capital of bukowina russian issued last nigltf in petrograd the energetic â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€” ou i which i have the i or a large i encounters i no on i the theh who i re i in the trenches jpelow ivangorod we took jarg-s quantities of war stores and ammunition abandoned by the reserve corps of the prussian | guard in its hasty retreat the austrian armies continue to fight with stubbornness on the vis tula on the san and particularly to the south of przemysl in east prussia there is no change in the situation the german official report is ab solutely silent on the battle near i warsaw ichere according to both the russian and french official reports j there has been a great german d6 leal t french coat of arms german coat of arm austrian coat of arms russian coat of anns vanguard of germans is annihilated by belgians london oct 23 a column of advance forces of german troops 1 hurled forward to-day near nieuport , in a desperate effort to cut through along the high ground near the coast | and penetrate iu the direction of i dunkirk was literally annihilated i by the belgians assisted by the fire from the british guns on the ships at sea great piles of german dead washed up on the beach were re vealed when the tide receded a hidden belgian battery near cartsmarck opened fire on an ad vancing german detachment which was taken by surprise five thou sand wounded germans have been taken into bruges invaders heavy artillery stuck in mud from dikes these are the most disastrous single defeats suffered by the ger 1 mans in the day's fighting along the j belgian coast where their advance | has been halted because of the sim ple fact that the invaders guns were j stuck in the mud upon this ludicrous scene the allies base their hope of victory in the tremendous conflict on this sec j tion of the battle front for nearly a week now this com bat has raged with unabated fury two great armies so nearly equal j in strength that their fronts have j bent and swayed buckled and ; wujrped day in and day out with j out either tjeing able to register a decisive victory continued to-day their terrific effort the germans heavily supported i by their mammoth howitzers are | still on the offensive against the j belgians led by their king and i supported by french troops with british and french war vessels on the sea and british monitors in the canals lending the aid of their long range gun fire while air scouts di rect their range the battle has resolved itself into a duel of big guns the allies by reason of their long range guns have had the advantage up to now because the belgians by opening the dykes and flooding the country to the east of the yser canal upon which the allied line is established have made a veritable quagmire of their front for several miles utterly ruining the roads and converting the fields into swamps for this reason the germans have been un able to bring up their guns of range equal or superior to those of the british monitors and battleships . seek to break german line during inundation how long it will take the ger mans to overcome this obstacle of inundation is a question but the allies are trying to hammer the germans to pieces while they still have them at a disadvantage as a result of the severe fighting amid the dunes the allies have ex tended their lines until they now run from the coast through lombartsyde and manniksveere to between slype and st pierre-capelle the germans between westende village and westende bains were ex posed to fire from three sides the british warships are now off middle kirke the light and railway service be tween knocke and ostend has been suspended and a number of supply trains have returned to bruges eng lish cavalry is reported to be active working up from thouroul the ger mans have placed artillery between thourout and tabbeke the enemy is still occupying thielt ghent and bruges are quiet allies wedge threatens von kluck from the rear paris oct 23 â€” french gunners to-day destroyed thtee german bat teries in an artillery engagement of j huge proportions north of the aisne ' the battle has been in progress iter two days but until the war office , at bordeaux issued its declaration of success at midnight to-night nothing ! w,as permitted to be published con | cerning it neither may the exact j location of the battle be mentioned j tven now however ii is permissible to state that this furious assault l'or the !â€¢- continued on 4th page 2d column a quarter of a million people every week day and considerably over half a million peo ple every sunday plan their buying from the advertising columns of the Chicago examiner you too should profit 485 buys bungalow toth av near irvine park uvd wil 37 foot lot see this bargain mr van bc'chou beautiful nciv bungalow west auburn sott tue sf-|rrt*t c tf aiul aberdpen see thorn dow nothing nicer s<m 1 uk kjikji l ui iu cash required balance like rent auburn statt bant 7914 halsted st : phoue stewart 5080 a wrtftlg of x otll owil for sal.k â€” j and 6 room modern bungalows in tq tfiroflcrtl our iiew subdivision h w heat beat transporta *Â° * iu uu^ii tion jjs.goo hnd uy nee them . ge ?^Â£ unsyt ng the examiner's want ad the states and real estate section a gardkn of homes in west rave nswoo.l neai elevate ; conslstina of five six and seven-room beautiful bungalows pri.-e 54.500 j3oo casn balance same as rem : wilson av and monticello i'hone irvins 991 or main sj.so nklson & vewih s0 n i_a salle st main 3380 you will never be really satisfied that you have found just the home you want until you take time to carefully in vestigate homes in every section of the city and suburbs this does not mean days and days spent in searching but just a few hours spent in reading the ads in the great home market the examiner's want ad and real estate section Chicago and vicevitv â€” fn et t tss ued but generally ftilr saturday aad js p *>â€” ' sunday cooler saturday frenh -*\^ ' a northerly viin x v pj range of temperatures yesterday j / y highest 64 l t - v j â– foor43m lowest ai at j oy average 61 i ssta

Chicago examiner vol xii no 263 a m saturday Chicago october 24 1914 saturday kegutefed ia c 8 patent office price one cent ta a,l ifwo e 1 ? s e mrs carman unshaken by state in death story cross-examined for more than an hour but essential facts of her testimony remain un refuted by the prosecution jury will retire this afternoon and verdict by nightfall is expected woman loses tem per once under questioning aiineola l 1 oct 23.â€”to morrow afternoon the jury which is to decide whether mrs florence conkiin carman murdered mrs louise duryea bailey on the night of june 30 will retire to deliberate upon the evidence a verdict before nightfall is predicted there is only one more witness for the defense to be called and his testimony will be comparatively un important mrs carman went back to her cell to-night smiling she as sured her mother her husband and her little daughter that she would spend sunday with them a free woman they went home cheered by her confidence the accused woman's ten-year-old daughter elizabeth her aged parents ilr and mrs piatt conkiin her sis ter mrs ida powell her niece mrs helen powell corby and her husband the cherubic doctor edwin carman testified in her behalf to-day the stories were all refutations of the ac cusations of celia coleman the negro maid jmhs iarma.v od vit_vess previously district attorney smith put mrs carman through eighty min utes of cross-examination while he shfiok e-r until she bit her lips in vexation and tr:iptÂ»r carmajv confused dr carman was the poorest wit ness the defense produced his v.ubby face was apoplectic as smith cross-examined him about the exact time of the tragedy about the delay in calling up the police about the â– mysterious man who came into his ort'ice and slapped him on the back about his throwing himself behind the operating chair when the revolver en tered the window and leaving mrs bailey unprotected and about his re fusal to permit the detectives to search his books in efforts to locate the two women who fled from the of fice dr carman's story seemed incom i â– ilete the cross-examination left him confused and unconvincing little elizabeth carman told her story in a mechanical parrot-like way she was very pretty and ap pealing district attorney smith when elizabeth was turned over to him for cro^s-examiiiation merely smiled at the child elizabeth he asked very gently you are very fond of your mother aren't you - yes sir replied she that's all sighed mr smith kerdinand 1 morton the negro lawyer who took a statement from celia coleman mrs carman's maid which the witness reversed in her tes timony at the trial almost came to blows with district attorney smith when morton insulted the prosecutor after he had been subje.ted to severe cross-examination admits jests piqi el her iu her cross-examination mrs car man declared she could not recall whÂ«n it was that the first became jealous of the doctor she simply heard rumors of the doctor's philan dering she had heard men say wish we had your opportun'ties doc doc you're sure some devil with the women wish we could stay out all night doc naturally she said she was a bit 8 women's minimum pay in minnesota ! commission orders sliding scale . applying to minors and learners also st pal'l minn oct 3 â€” wage orders affecting all women workers and minors in minnesota were pro mulgated by the state minimum wage commission to-day the orders will go into effect november 23 thirty days after their establishment they are based on the weekly living wage necessary for workers in the various occupations six orders in all were made as follows cities of the first class mercan tile 9 manufacturing 55.75 cities of second third and fourth classes js.oo 58.25 outside the cities 8 in both classes the mercantile classification in cludes women workers and minors employed in mercantile lines office help waitresses and hair dressers the manufacturing and mechanical lines include telephone and telegraph help laundry workers dry cleaning employes lunch rocm restaurant and hotel help the different orders relating to the part of the state in which the work ers are employed are based on the cost of living in the various classes of cities and in the country districts the minimum wages apply to learn ers apprentices women and minors that the orders will be tested in the courts is almost certain the same procedure may be followed as was used in the attack on the oregon wage law with which an employer refused to comply a decision from the united states supreme court on tiie appeal from the oregon law may have a bearing on the future of min nesota's new orders e b mclean injured in auto-train race washington oct 23 â€” while rac ing with trie mile a-minute baltimore & ohio special in his 9,000 italian motor car this evening edward b mc lean father or the 3100,000,000 baby received a broken arm w-hen the gasoline tank of the machine ex ploded the car was destroyed by flames mclean was returning to washing ton from the laurel race track he was accompanied by john gheen a garage keeper of this city there is a strip of road alonrÂ»*ide the railroad track which the fre quenters of laurel use as a speed way mclean had scarcely struck this stretch on his return to wash ington when the baltimore & ohio flyer thundered along he set his machine to full speed and was keep ing alongside the train when the ex plosion came and he and his compan ion were hurled to the ground rabbi slain holding cross before soldier london oct 23 news has reached the jewish world of the man ner in which the chief rabbi of lyons was killed on the battlefield he was in the midst of the fighting tending wounded jewish soldiers when he was called to the side of a dying ro man catholic trooper this poor el low begged the rabbi to hold before his eyes the symbol of his faith and give him his blessing while he was holding a crucifix before the soldier and whisperingÂ».words of comfort the rabbi-fell dead a victim of a bullet duke of roxburghe reported wounded london oct 23 â€” the duke of roxburghe a captain in the scots guards is unofficially reported wounded but not dangerously during the action in france the duke is the husband of the former miss may goelet and is well known in america waldorf astor s son wounded in battle london oct 23 â€” captain john astor of the first life guards son of waldorf astor is reported to have arrived in london to-day from the front suffering from a wound re ceived in battle in france 50,000 is price set for love by ghicago girl miss nellie viola richards sues h w fry of st paul for failure to wed her met in cafe in twih city action follows betrothal to an other fifty letters are evi " dence lawyers assert st paul minn oct 23 â€” henry welz fry 1035 summit avenue has been served with notice of a suit for f50,000 brought by miss nellie viola richards 4151 lake park avenue Chicago charging breach of promise to marry miss richards action fol lows closely upon the announcement of mr fry's engagement to miss ber nice frances page daughter of mr and mrs albert a page of minneap olis according to the bill which miss richards attorneys are preparing tr file the Chicago girl who is just twenty-three and pretty announced her engagement prepared her trous seau and was the guest at several pre-nuptial parties the announcement she says fol lowed her introduction to fry when on a visit to st paui in 1913 and sev eral visits which fry made to her miss richards attorneys in st paul murphy bradford & cummings say she has no less than fifty letters fr>>m fry in twenty-fife of which he re fers lo their forthcoming marriage and tells of his devotion introduced at cafe jliss richards was a guest of mrs arnold p flankers 386 maria ave nue on her visits in st paul the two were girlhood friends in Chicago to-day dr plankers said that miss richards came to st paul august 13 1913 on her way to winnipeg ex pecting to visit mrs plankers the i latter was out of the city and dr plankers entertained miss richards taking her to luncheon and dinner at the restaurant he said he in troduced mr fry to miss richards miss richards left that evening for winnipeg but returned to st paul september 22 she says she remained in st paul three weeks as mrs flanker's guest mr fry being very attentive at christmas time miss richards says mr fry went to Chicago for two days and in june he made a similar stay june 8 according to her as sertions he talked to her parents in august according to miss rich ards attorneys mr fry went to chi cago and at that time a party was given for miss richards at the home of a friend at which the announce ment of her engagement to mr fry was made fry silent about suit then came the announcement ot fry's engagement to miss page miss richards her attorneys say asked fry about this and he admitted it fry refused to talk about the suit to night he has twenty days in which to answer miss richards complaint miss page said she was engaged to marry mr fry and that the wedding was se for november 11 mr fry would not admit t_*at lie and miss page were engaged 1 want the name of the woman i am to marry kept out of this he said miss richards when called on the telephone last night at lier home 4151 lake park avenue said the suit had been flled against mr fry but de clined to discuss the details the suit will speak for itself when heard she said stockings will be neutral i e white milwaukee wis oct 23 stockings are to be white this is a war note â€” not a fashion note the j three largest stocking factories in j the world announce that because of | the soaring prices of dyestuffs most of which are imported from germany the bulk of their output for the com ing season will bear the colors of the flag of truce there will be pink and purple and other colored hose for those who want them and will pay the price but as more stockings than ever before will be of cotton and i white sox never run â€” stockings are to be white mugler dies as he pleads to 300 voters republican leader's friends see death instead qf reconcilia tion with old rival collapses on rostrum pulmotor fails to save politician when he is stricken with â€¢ apoplexy three hundred of the friends and followers of george a mugler gath ered at the fifteenth ward repub lican club last night to see him shake the hand of james j mccomb lately his political opponent but there was no such hand shaking and mr mug ler's friends instead saw him die he was delivering an address for fifteen minutes he had been speaking with the greatest earnestness urg ing his auditors to put aside all per sonal differences â€” as he had done in his relations with mccomb he leaned forward to emphasize a point you and i remember he cried the days of 1893 when when â€” " the sentence was not finished mr mugler gasped struggled to recover himself then collapsed on the plat form as two men rushed forward to catch him when they leaned over him on thc floor he was unconscious pujl.motor is used dr urheim hurried forward and made an examination apoplexy he said send for a pulmotor the pulmotor was brought quickly but its use was vain the body was taken to the mugler home 1351 north california avenue mr mugler was forty-six years old he was a republican leader in his ward and he had held several public offices the latest being that of sec retary of the west side park board james j mccomb defeated mr mug ler for re-election as republican ward committeeman and it was said there had been some bitterness yesterday was the first time since primary day that mr mugler had appeared at the headquarters his rival ili at home it was to have been a reconciliation day between mr mugler and mr mc comb to this end senator niels juui had been working unceasingly the appearance of mr mugler was hailed as evidence that harmony was re stored it had been announced that mr mccomb would be present also but illness prevented mr mugler was born in Chicago and educated here he had filled the offices of chief clerk in the county clerk's office and alderman of the old fourteenth ward in addition to the secretaryship which he held at his death for years he had been repub lican ward committeeman he is survived by his wife and one brother henry mugler an inquest will be held this morning at the mug ler home general winslow financier dead st louis mo oct 23 â€” general edward f winslow widely known as a financier and railroad builder and formerly a resident of st louis who served for several years as presi dent of the frisco died at his sum mer home canandaigua n y to night general winslow who re turned early in the summer from paris where he and his wife had been spending some time served as presi dent of the frisco from 1882 to 1892 and later built the new york west shore & buffalo railroad and several other railroads he was seventy seven years old kettle-strong home oak park relic burns fire destroyed one of oak park's relics last night when the three-story frame house at 385 north boulevard formerly the home of the kettle strong family the first settlers of the suburb was burned to the ground it was erected forty-seven years ago and recently was condemned the building was used as a clubhouse by the boys of oak park high school from 1900 to 1910 since that time it has been vacant jewelry disappears while owner bathes the south clark street police are searching for a burglar who entered the room of e f pshurer 1311 south michigan avenue last night and escaped with jewelry valued at 575 pshurer had gone to the bathroom and left the door and window to his room open when he returned from his bath he discovered that the jew elry had been stolen wilson goes to help a mitchell palmer washington oct 23 â€” president wilson started for pittsburgh at mid night he will make a speech for representative a mitchell palmer who is running for the united states senate against boise penrose the presidenl will return to w^i^hngton " '" __________ zeppelins to attack ships with torpedo troops transported by aeroplane help french win battle on the meuse special cable to the examiner milan oct 23 for the past few days many zeppelins have been practicing at a great height over lake constance firing torpedoes at targets on rafts in the lake below the results of this practice are such that the germans are said to have decided to supply the airships under construction with torpedo ap paratus these airships will be ready within a few months to co operate in the north sea paris oct 23 â€” transportation of troops by aeroplanes has just enabled the french to win an engagement in the east two heavy biplanes each carrying a couple of men flew over the german lines twelve times at night and deposited forty-eight sol diers on a plateau in the meuse heights one kilometer behind trenches of the enemy which were so strongly protected by barbed wire that they could not be carried by frontal attack at dawn the air-borne detachment blazed away at the enemy from the rear caught between two fires the germans evacuated the trenches and retreated poisoned cigarets the latest atrocity special cable lo the examiner , london oct 23 â€” here is a thriller from the evening news one of lord northcliffe's papers dr a m low technical adviser to the government in connection with wireless telegraphy recently has been experimenting with a rifle of which the germans are trying to ob tain control some weeks ago a ger man financier visited dr low with out result a few days ago a man represent ing himself to be the secretary of this german visited the doctor during the interview he offered dr low a cigaret dr low did not smoke it later it w r as analyzed and found to be charged with a strong dose of strychnine chloride early in september a shot was fired at dr low through the window of his laboratory aeroplanes drive 2 taubes from paris special cable to the examiner paris oct 23 â€” the following of ficial statement was issued to-day two taube aeroplanes tempted by the flrst clear day in a week were sighted over compiegne to-day headed for paris a french defensive fleet of aeroplanes ascended to give battle but the taubes reversed their direction and descended well behind the imperial trenches nude water poloists rout german patrol paris oct 23 â€” according to the cri-de paris a detachment of british cavalry was playing water polo in the oise near noyen tjvis w _ eek when the approach of an uhlan patrol was signaled there was not time enough to dress so quitting the water the britishers leaped into their saddles as they were and dripping wet chased the germans ave miles across country \. kaiser's triumphal paris music seized special cable to the examiner paris oct 23 the cri de paris says hans hammerburg whom it de scribes as the chief bandmaster of the german army has been captured having in his possession a number of triumphal marches marked to be played on the kaiser's entry into paris hospital ship back with 150 refugees new york pet 23 â€” the ameri can hospital ship red cross which sailed from new york last month with american surgeons and nurses for service in the european war ar rived off sandy hook to-night she left rotterdam on oetoljer 1,2 and has on board 150 passengers most of whom are refugees 498 lost on hawke says admiralty list special cable to the examiner london oct 23 the press bu reau of the admiralty to-day issued a casualty list giving two men dead and 496 missing as the result of the sinking of the hawke it is feared the missing must be regarded as dead , . i _____â– germans battering allies back lose 200,000 in warsaw battle french charge retake altkirch invaders take trenches at la bassee capture two forts at belfort renew their assaults on verdun allied wedge perils von kluck french destroy 3 teuton batteries belgians wipe out german force special cable io the examiner petrograd oct 23 the battle of the vistula with 4,520,000 men engaged is the fiercest of the war grand duke nicholas reports that the germans are in rapid retirement and the general staff claims 200,000 germans lost in killed wounded and captured the ger man aim to capture warsaw is declared to have been defeated by the rout on the vistula przemysl is report ed taken paris oct 23 the french to-day captured alt kirch upper alsace at the point of the bayonet this is the fifth time altkirch has changed hands since the war began berlin via the hague oct 23 the allies vigorous attack on the german lines before lille has failed the trench and british are being driven steadily to the westward the principal gains of the germans to-day were made in the vicinity of laÃŸassee here from their vantage ground of a dry canal over which the allies shells sweep harmlessly while the kaiser's soldiers rest snugly underneath the germans made a sortie and fell on the allies lines which retired in some confusion the germans gain at laÃŸassee was greater than at any other por tion of the line but the day saw large accessions to the territory occu pied by the teuton armies all along the battle front the german attack on belfort by which'route it is hoped to hurl the kaiser's armies again toward paris is proceeding two french forts to the south of the main fortress have capitulated to the germans the garrisons withdrawing to the greater stronghold official statements french issued last night in bordeaux â– on our left wing the action has continued with extreme violence espe cially around arras taÃŸassee and armentieres the allies forces have lost ground at some points around laÃŸassee but have gained ground to the east of armen tieres the situation has not changed in a general way along this part of the front north of the aisne our artillery has destroyed three german bat teries the afternoon statement said we hava made progress espe cially in the region of rosieresand in santerre in the region of verdun and in that of pont-a-mous son we have had some partial suc cess german issued lust night in berlin - on the yser â– yesterday i we sue i to the south i our i troops a d i to the west i lille our at i tacks sue | cessful we took possession of several villages on the rest of the western front it is generally quiet austrian received by dr dumba austro hungarian ambassador by wireless from vienna last night in battle i on i the i river suc i ceeded i ing i vances lon the southern i bank on the | p height no 66 hill southeast of stary sambor we took two defensive positions northwest of stary sambor our front has been moved nearer to the highway leading to starasol in the most recent fighting 3,400 russians among them twenty-five officers with fifteen machine guns were captured our vanguard has entered czer nowicz the capital of bukowina russian issued last nigltf in petrograd the energetic â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€”â€” ou i which i have the i or a large i encounters i no on i the theh who i re i in the trenches jpelow ivangorod we took jarg-s quantities of war stores and ammunition abandoned by the reserve corps of the prussian | guard in its hasty retreat the austrian armies continue to fight with stubbornness on the vis tula on the san and particularly to the south of przemysl in east prussia there is no change in the situation the german official report is ab solutely silent on the battle near i warsaw ichere according to both the russian and french official reports j there has been a great german d6 leal t french coat of arms german coat of arm austrian coat of arms russian coat of anns vanguard of germans is annihilated by belgians london oct 23 a column of advance forces of german troops 1 hurled forward to-day near nieuport , in a desperate effort to cut through along the high ground near the coast | and penetrate iu the direction of i dunkirk was literally annihilated i by the belgians assisted by the fire from the british guns on the ships at sea great piles of german dead washed up on the beach were re vealed when the tide receded a hidden belgian battery near cartsmarck opened fire on an ad vancing german detachment which was taken by surprise five thou sand wounded germans have been taken into bruges invaders heavy artillery stuck in mud from dikes these are the most disastrous single defeats suffered by the ger 1 mans in the day's fighting along the j belgian coast where their advance | has been halted because of the sim ple fact that the invaders guns were j stuck in the mud upon this ludicrous scene the allies base their hope of victory in the tremendous conflict on this sec j tion of the battle front for nearly a week now this com bat has raged with unabated fury two great armies so nearly equal j in strength that their fronts have j bent and swayed buckled and ; wujrped day in and day out with j out either tjeing able to register a decisive victory continued to-day their terrific effort the germans heavily supported i by their mammoth howitzers are | still on the offensive against the j belgians led by their king and i supported by french troops with british and french war vessels on the sea and british monitors in the canals lending the aid of their long range gun fire while air scouts di rect their range the battle has resolved itself into a duel of big guns the allies by reason of their long range guns have had the advantage up to now because the belgians by opening the dykes and flooding the country to the east of the yser canal upon which the allied line is established have made a veritable quagmire of their front for several miles utterly ruining the roads and converting the fields into swamps for this reason the germans have been un able to bring up their guns of range equal or superior to those of the british monitors and battleships . seek to break german line during inundation how long it will take the ger mans to overcome this obstacle of inundation is a question but the allies are trying to hammer the germans to pieces while they still have them at a disadvantage as a result of the severe fighting amid the dunes the allies have ex tended their lines until they now run from the coast through lombartsyde and manniksveere to between slype and st pierre-capelle the germans between westende village and westende bains were ex posed to fire from three sides the british warships are now off middle kirke the light and railway service be tween knocke and ostend has been suspended and a number of supply trains have returned to bruges eng lish cavalry is reported to be active working up from thouroul the ger mans have placed artillery between thourout and tabbeke the enemy is still occupying thielt ghent and bruges are quiet allies wedge threatens von kluck from the rear paris oct 23 â€” french gunners to-day destroyed thtee german bat teries in an artillery engagement of j huge proportions north of the aisne ' the battle has been in progress iter two days but until the war office , at bordeaux issued its declaration of success at midnight to-night nothing ! w,as permitted to be published con | cerning it neither may the exact j location of the battle be mentioned j tven now however ii is permissible to state that this furious assault l'or the !â€¢- continued on 4th page 2d column a quarter of a million people every week day and considerably over half a million peo ple every sunday plan their buying from the advertising columns of the Chicago examiner you too should profit 485 buys bungalow toth av near irvine park uvd wil 37 foot lot see this bargain mr van bc'chou beautiful nciv bungalow west auburn sott tue sf-|rrt*t c tf aiul aberdpen see thorn dow nothing nicer sâ€” ' sunday cooler saturday frenh -*\^ ' a northerly viin x v pj range of temperatures yesterday j / y highest 64 l t - v j â– foor43m lowest ai at j oy average 61 i ssta